Housing secretary confirms details of £1bn building safety fund

Robert Jenrick, housing secretary

Minister also says sprinklers required in new buildings over 11m

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has officially launched the government’s new £1bn building safety fund.

The government has published the prospectus for the fund, which will meet the cost for remediation of unsafe non-ACM cladding systems on residential buildings in the private and social sector that are 18m and over and do not comply with building regulations.

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